Fugue Opens Tonight.

So, tonight at 8pm, Fugue opens at The Theater Building.

Tickets are usually $12 ($10 for students and people who use my code "OWEN21") In addition to the show opening, tonight is also "Industry Night" where you can tell the Box Office person that you're in the Entertainment Industry and you get in for $3, which is a ridiculously low price. $3 is "Sheer Curiosity Price". If you're just "curious" about the show, but not enthusiastic to see it, you can pay $3 and not feel like a chump about it.

I've been going back and forth about whether I should recommend this show to people. On the one hand, it's been exceptionally good in rehearsals, like "TJ and Dave" level good. With big, meaty scenes of comedy and drama. Some Heart-Breaking scenes and some Spirit-Lifting scenes and some Gut-Busting scenes. Nothing is done small, except for the Small Things, which are done as small as you would want them to be. And there are also interesting verbal and stage-picture games going on, too. The show runs on many, many different levels. Which is thrilling for an artists, and I think, an audience, too.

But on the other hand, I have some concerns about the show too. It's our first time performing it in this radically different space. And I have to wonder how all that space and all of that dead air are going to influence the performers. For some of the cast, this is also their first show or damned near their first show and I know that they're really anxious and nervous about this. How will that translate to stage, too? And I have to wonder if this sort of improv is going to be well-received or not. It's heavy and densly-packed and intense and just as alive as life, itself. Is that the sort of experience that the audience will be open too? Or do they just want funny bits with a dog, and pants-falling-down?

These are my concerns about the show. Not that it's good. I know that it's good. But that it will translate from the safety of Room #1 in Gill Park to the GIGANTIC performance space of The Theater Building. And will the audience accept this type of work?

What an exciting set of problems to have.

Just by the fact that I'm worrying about THIS and not whether my "giant butt-face headpiece is going to come un-glued" tells me that I'm working on just the sort of theater that I want to be working on.

And that it might be heading in just the direction that I want it to be heading. Which is "away from what else is being produced at other theater's in the city right now".

This show is Something Different.
If you're as hungry for Something Different, as I am, then this show is for you.
And if you're just a little bit curious about it, then come see it tonight. A night when you couldn't possibly feel bad about the $3 admission fee.

I guess I AM recommending it after all.

GO see "Fugue".



Here's the pertinent show info:

FUGUE
WEDNESDAYS @ 8PM
AUG 29 - OCT. 24 (NO SHOW ON OCT. 10)
$12 TICKETS ($2 DISCOUNT FOR STUDENTS & PEOPLE WHO USE MY CODE "OWEN21".
DIRECTED BY DON HALL
PRODUCED BY THEATER MOMENTUM.
FEATURING MR.B, MATT DEVINE, LISA FAIRMAN, KRISSY KAVANAUGH. DEANNA MOFFITT, JESSICA SCHLOBOHM, TONY RIELAGE, & SCOTT WHITEHAIR
OUR MARKETING MATERIAL SAYS: "Fugue captures the essence of a musical fugue as four scenes interweave on stage to a soundtrack of jazz, opera, movie scores and more."